E014 - Logistics Visibility With Jaak Laineste, Sixfold
Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2021
Show Notes
For today’s episode we talk with Jaak Laineste, who is the Director of Research at Sixfold. Sixfold is Europe’s leading provider of visibility services. Their technology integrates transport management systems, truck telematics, mapping data, and predictive analytics. Sixfold help the world’s biggest companies, their carriers and customers to get accurate delivery estimates and see where their shipments are in real time. Sixfold has grown a lot, but still maintains important offices in Tartu and Tallinn.
Enjoy the interview.
Research reading list:
Like usually, we also want to share some recent interesting articles on GIS, Geography or related fields with every episode so that you and we have the idea on what kind of research is going on:
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Transactions in GIS, Wiley | Loose programming of GIS workflows with geo‐analytical concepts https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/tgis.12692?af=R (subscription access)
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IJGI - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, MDPI | Comparing World City Networks by Language: A Complex-Network Approach https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/10/4/219 (open access)
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Nature Sustainability, Springer | An evaluation of the sustainability of the Olympic Games https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-021-00696-5 (open access)
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npj Urban Sustainability, Springer | Urban access across the globe: an international comparison of different transport modes https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-021-00020-2 (open access)
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IJGIS - International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Taylor & Francis | Decentralized geoprivacy: leveraging social trust on the distributed web https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13658816.2021.1931236?af=R (open access)
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Guests
Jaak Laineste
Jaak Laineste is the Director of Research at Sixfold. Sixfold is Europe’s leading provider of visibility services. Their technology integrates transport management systems, truck telematics, mapping data, and predictive analytics. Sixfold help the world’s biggest companies, their carriers and customers to get accurate delivery estimates and see where their shipments are in real time.
In the episode Jaak also provides us with an overview of his impressive and diverse background and career path. For more info check out Jaak’s LinkedIn profile.
Hosts
Alex Kmoch
Alex is a Distributed Spatial Systems Researcher with many years of international experience in geospatial data management and web- and cloud-based geoprocessing with a particular focus on land use, soils, hydrology, and water quality. His interests include OGC standards and web-services for location-based data sharing, modelling workflows, machine learning, and interactive geo-visualisation. Alex has been involved with SDIs and the OGC for a long time and was recently elected board member of the Estonian Geoinformatics Society (EstGIS) and European Co-Chair for the OGC University Domain Working Group. He is based at the Chair of Geoinformatics and Cartography at Department of Geography of the University of Tartu.